Nov. 4 - UC Health backs kid vaccinations; holidays ahead
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Anteater Time Machine: What UCI looked like in 1963, two years before opening.
UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
UCI and CHOC team up in national rare diseases network
To improve access, care and research for rare disease patients, the National Organization for Rare Disorders has designated 31 Centers of Excellence across the U.S., including a new program formed by UCI Health and the Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
Holidays on the horizon
’Tis the season for some time off: Veterans Day is next Thursday, Nov. 11, and Thanksgiving break is Nov. 25 and 26. December brings the winter administrative recess, which closes most campus offices from Thursday, Dec. 23, through Friday, Dec. 31. Everything reopens Monday, Jan. 3. Under UC policy, three days during winter recess – Dec. 27, 28 and 29 – will not be paid holidays. To cover those days, employees have three options:
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Use paid vacation time (which may be used in advance of accrual during this period).
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Use compensatory time off, if available, with approval of your supervisor.
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Take up to three days off without pay.
Founding professor reflects on UCI history
Spencer Olin, an emeritus professor of history who began teaching here in 1965, discusses UCI’s growth, his various assignments over the years and his favorite role: directing the university’s innovative Humanities Core course.
UC NEWS AND GENERAL NEWS
UC Health endorses kid vaccinations
Echoing the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics, UC Health officials have endorsed COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5 to 11 as “a significant step forward in the fight against the pandemic.”
U.S. mandates vaccines or tests for private companies
Workers at companies with at least 100 employees will have to be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or take weekly COVID-19 tests and wear a mask. Healthcare workers will not have a testing option. The mandate will affect about 100 million Americans.
‘Vax’ is Oxford’s word of the year
In 2021, the shorthand for “vaccine” and “vaccination” was used 72 times more frequently than last year, according to Oxford Languages, creator of the Oxford English Dictionary. Vax can be either a noun or a verb, and it's spawned a multitude of derivatives, including "vax sites," "vax cards," “anti-vax” and "fully vaxxed.”
EVENTS
Unauthorized Love
Monday, 1 p.m. (sponsored by School of Social Ecology)
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UCI IN THE NEWS
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Your guide to safer holiday travel
The Washington Post, Nov. 4
Cited: Andrew Noymer, associate professor of population health and disease prevention
$3M Grant From NSF To Help UC Irvine Retain STEM Students
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Nov. 3
Cited: Pheather R. Harris, director of the California Alliance for Minority Participation
Columbus woman's exoneration makes history
10TV, Nov. 1 (Video)
Cited: Simon Cole, director of the National Registry of Exonerations and professor of criminology, law & society